Technical notes from the network.

The Solana indexing market has split into four shapes: hosted RPC, hosted indexer, validator-adjacent stream, and decentralized protocol. Here is how to choose.

Load balancers are the default answer to redundancy. They are the wrong default. Here is why racing 3 operators per query produces lower tail latency at competitive cost.

Compressed accounts on Solana made the chain cheaper. They also made indexing harder. Here is how StreamSync's ZK reconstruction node class does the work the rest of the network doesn't want to.

A realistic look at the income model for StreamSync operators — race winnings, verifier shares, reputation effects, hardware costs, and the staking math behind it all.

Helius is the de facto standard for hosted Solana RPC and indexing. Here is what they do better than we do, what we do better than they do, and how to pick.

DuckDB is a single-node analytical database. Solana state at the byte level is much bigger than a single node. Here is how we built the shard layer that bridges them.

Why latency SLAs in indexing are usually fiction, how StreamSync makes them load-bearing, and what changes when payment depends on hitting the number.